Driving and reversing gearing.



R. W. & L. H. BATEMAN.

DRIVING AND REVERSING GEARING.

Patented se t. 22,1914.

APPLICATION FILED DEGr 30 1 912.

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R. W. & L. H. BATEMAN.

DRIVING AND REVERSING GEARING.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30, 1912.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

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DRIVING AND REVERSING GBARING.

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DRIVING AND REVERSING GEARING.

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APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30. 1912.

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DRIVING AND RBVBRSING GEARING.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 30, 1912.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

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DRIVING AND REVERSING GEARING.

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DRIVING AND REVERSING GEARING.

APPLICATION FILED DEG 30.1912.

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' BA'rnMAivi and LOFTUS HANSO B 'rnMAN, subgearing which shall allow :of such a degree. of flexibility or resiliency at the instant of.

TQaZZ whom itmag concemlts UNITE sTAT s PATENT I OFFICE. j

Inorri ini wILK nsoN Be it-known-that we, RI HARD WILKmsoN jects ofthe King ofGreat Britain and he land ,.residing at Hill Crest avenue, England,. and 9 Buller road, Longsight,

Manchester, Eng-land,jrespectively, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements jm Driving and Beversmg Gearlng, the following 1s a specification. .1:

of which i This :invention relates to driving and reversing gearingand particularly. to' such gearlng employed 111i connection wlth planing, shaping, slotting :andlikelinaohines, its object beingto provide an efiicient form, of

reversal as will preventthe' occurrence of any excessive shock oru'jarsiin. the driving rmechanlsm at' such finstant wlneh- 3wonld .cause fracture or rapids deterioratron 0f same, but which gives a positive drive with frictional throughout the traverse between reversals.

Our invention comprises the combination means whereby the TIBCIPIK):

eating part is brought torest and has its directioni of motionreversed, 10f -au tomatic meansv for. positively driving Or-aCtuating said partxafter the reversal has been com lpleteda.

Referring to the accompanying explana 1,tory drawings: Figure l is a front elevaftion and Fig. 2; a-planview of the dogs or tappets for actuating. the driving and reyersln'g mechanism. F gl, 31s an end elevationofthema chine withyparts shown in section. Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively. sec-.

tional end and front elevations of the driving and reversingmechanismf Fig. 11 is a 50."

- 2 tion, certain ing and reversing means detached-from posiparts beingomltted for the sake of clearness." from left i to ing mechanism. Fig. 7 is a sectional view on the line A B of Fig.6.; Figs. 8', 9. and 10 are respectively front elevation,.'end elevation and plan view. of the dogs or tappets ofll'a modified arrangement of our improved drivseeti'onal end elevation showing the mechanism ,for'operating the driving and revers ing gear. Fig. 12 is aidetail viewto 'be hereinafter referred to. Figs. 13, 11 and 115 are views drawn to an enlargedscale of the modified arrangement o' f .dr iving and reverse."

TBATEMAN, or LEEDS, AND nor'rns I onesmnnnnnonnsrnn, ENGLAND.

4 Specification of Letters Patent. A ppliea tio n filed December 30, 1912.

Leeds,

.rection only of. its traverse. actuatea cam plate 0 and rock the latter,

Fig. 6 is anelevation looking right of FigJr-jt' showing the means for; operating the driving and .reversfnitivnve Ann anvnnsme GEARING. I

Patented Sept.

22, 1914:. Serial N 0. 739,310.

. ing gear; Figmlfl 'is a longitudinal view of a Hanson BATEMAN, or"

planing machine having the .mechanism shown in Fig. 8 applied theretorifl' r The same reference letters in the difierent views indicate the same or similar parts.

Referring in the first place to Figs. 1 to 7, the rec1procatingtable a of the planing or like machine has dogs or tappets Z), c secured thereon as usual (see Fig. 1), but in addition thereto we provide a further tappetd which operates uponthe reversing gear in one difor engagement by for engagement by The tappets 71 mounted thereon,

is as follows :-With the parts in the positions shown, and with the table a traveling in the direction of the arrow (Fig. 1), the

tappet b will engage the roller h on the cam so partially r0- tating the shaft 7-. Such movement results in the reversalgof the table a by the means hereinafter'described. During the operation of the earn (5 slips over the upper. endofthe arm jand .does not operate the latter, but upon the reversal of the direction of rotation of the table, the tappet' d strikes the arm j and partially rotates same about the pin 8, so giving a further movement to the cam plate 6 and therefore a further rotary movement to the shaft 7"." It will thus be seen thatthe tappet- "cZgives a. supplementary movement towthe,

plate by the tappet b,.the tappetw 1 camplate e and shaft r, after .the-mainmove f.

ment, due to .thetappet b, is completed. When the table completes its traverse in the directionopposite to that indicated by the arr ow,'the tappet c'strikes the roller i and f rocks the cam plate in a reverse dlr'ection,

which results inthereversal of direction of traverse of the table a. Y

r The shaft '1" carries a crank arm t;which is coupled by means of the connecting rod u to the quadrant '0 engaging the; teeth of "a racked rod 10 (seelFigs 3v and 4:)- .Each end of said rod is secured to a sleeve like member 00 on the boss 3/ of the flywheel z. The said sleeve has a rack Ssecured thereon which engages with a pinion 4: upon a spindle 5, upon which is also secured a bevel pinion 6 gearing with a quadrant 7 attached to a slotted arm 8 pivoted about a pin 9 (see Fig. 6). The slot 10 within said arm has one portion concentric with the centerpin 9, but the other portion is adapted to act as a cam to give-a. rocking motion to a bell crank lever -11 and so to a'connecting rod 12 and a further racked quadrant 18 which engages with a pinion lei mounted upon a spindle 16 carrying'a'pinion'17 engaging a rack 18 upon a strap 19 secured at one end 20 to the flywheel e and adapted to surround a pulley 21 keyed upon the shaft 22 which by;imeans of suitable gearing reciprocates the table a inthe known manner.

The sleeve 2: has a projecting ,arm 2 ithereon which receives the end .of a rod 25 within a boss like portion of thevflywheel z. The block 26 is adapted to engage one or other of a plurality of lugs Ioi stops'27 se cured upon the pulley 21. Between the end of the projection 24 and the block 26 is interposd asp ring 29 by whichthe movement of thejpart 2 i' toward the flywheel 2 is com- 'municated to said block.

The operation of the parts shown in Figs. 1 to 7 is as follows :-When thefitappet Z) (Fig. 1) moves in the-direction of the arrow and engages the roller h on the cam plate e so as to move the latter and partially rotate the shaft'r, the rod 10 is reciprocated in "one or other direction and carries with it the sleeves m, (Fig. 4.), one sleeve moving toward-and the other away from its fly- :wheel. Assuming the sleeve 00 shown in Figs. 4L, 6 and 7 is beinginoved toward its flywheel 2, thisresultsin a rotation of the pinion by the rack 3. Such rotation causes movement of the slotted arm 8"in the direc ti o'n of-the arrow through an'angle ap-'.

proximately equal tothat betweenthe lines X andY and so gives a rocking movement to the bell crank lever 11 due to the cam action of the portion of the slot 10 in which the bowl on said bell crank lever then works.

The rocking of the latter results in the ro-v tation-bf the pinion 17 which'draws the.

strap-"19 tightly round the pulley 21, so imparting to the latter the rotary 'motion of the flywheel 2. There are two continuouslyand oppositely rotating wheels 2 upon each planing "or like machine, (see Fig. 3) so that'one wheel serves to drive the table during the forward or cutting stroke and the other wheel drives it during the reverse or return stroke.

up around its pulley, the strap on the other flywheel is slackened anism and so the reversal of motion of the At the same time that the strap 19' on the one flywheel is tightened back by Similar mechr v a mechanism somewhat similar gto that planingmachinetable accomplished. It

will be seen that the actual ,reversalis ef-H fected by the a frictional connection between the'strap 19 and tlie'pulley21. .When, however, reversal hasfbeeii accomplished, the

tappet d, Fig. 1, engages the arm j and gives a further movement thereby to the Cam plate 6' and to the shaft 7', which results in a further movement of the sleeve 00. The previous or main movement-while suficient to operatethe band 19, was not sufficient-to, bring y the block J 26- into, engagement; with 7 one of thef. lugs 27 *onjthe. p'ulleyyil I The further movement) ofz-tlie sleeve -.now 5 brings'such parts 26 and 27 intoengagem ent" and insures the positive idrivingf of the pul-.

ley 21 by the flywheelinwhich the block ismounted. I During the second or sup plementary movement of the sleeve wand of the slotted arm 8,;the' bell crank lever 11 remainsstationary, for the portion of the slot. 10 through which the bowl on the lever 11 then travels iscoiicentricv with the pin "9 of the second portion of the movement of the arm 8 in the direc'tion of the arrow is indicatedby the anglebetweenthe lines-Y about which the arm moves." The amount and Z. It 'will be understood that on the reversal of the movement of the sleeve a:

after 'a traverse in one direction is completed,r.theblock 26 isfir'st withdrawn from the" lugs 27 and then the pinion 17 is'rotated' to slackenthebelt19. 1 It, will' be readily under'stood that the moment of [reversal of a planing *ma'chin'e' table, very great strain isthrownupon the reversing gear and that the employment of a meansfor efiecting' such reversalwlnch does not allow of small relative movement s between the driving and driven element's would result in fracture. of the 'gear'sfor violent shocks and. jars'in the mechanism'.

Likewise, as is well known, afriction clutch is very unsatisfactory for use an a planing machine drive as, while 1t prov des for slip under heavy cu.ts;butjslips and so seriously impairs the eflicien'cy of the machine. By the employment of our invention, we ob-' tain all the advantages of a friction clutch in our improved strap: type of clutch used at reversals, while'wealso insure a positive employment of heavy reciprocating and 11113.;

balanced parts such as sho'wn in 'the: illusv 125.

trations would be objectionable. life therefore prefer .to employ for largezsizeuma chines the form of" -mechanism shown in;

Figs; Sto 15. Referring to Fists-8,9 and 10 which show 7 I 110' at reversal, it cannot maintain a steady drive i shown in Figs-1,2 .and3, inthis case the cam' plate 6 operates the intermittently rocking rod or shaft r through the bevel wheels 30, and the supplementary lever j actuated Fig. 11) gearing w1th which is operatively. connected an arm 36.

v (see Fig. 15) bymeans of the wheel 46 and spur wheel 47 keyed upon the by the tappet d operates said shaft 1" through further. bevel wheels 31 upon the spindle 32. Hand operation of said shaft 1' is provided for by means of the handle 33 upon said spindle 32. r l

The shaft r carries a quadrant 34 (see a quadrant 35, with carryingja'bevel wheelf43 gearing with a bevel wheel 44 (see Fig.11). The latter is in operative connection with the flywheel z sleeve45, spur a boss 48 of said flywheel.

The member 50 (see Figs.l..11land12) which forms a support forthewheels 39, 40, 41 and 43 is keyed upon the shaft 61 carrying the spur wheel 52 meshing with the spur wheel 53 upon. the sleeve 54 which also carries or has formed thereon the spur wheel 55. boss 48. Meshing with the wheel 55 is a wheel 56 (see Fig. 13) having two slots 57, 58 therein to receive bowls59, 60 mounted on levers 61, 62. The lever 61-corresponds to the lever 11 in Fig. 6 and actuates the clutch strap by means, ofthe connecting rod 12, quadrant 13, pinion 14 and other parts similar to those illustrated in Fig 4.

. The sleeve 54 has a projec'ting cam por-f tion 63 thereon upon whichrides the end of an arm 64 mounted on a spindle .65 carry ing a pawl like member 66. which engages the serrated edge of a wheel 67 mounted on the boss of the pulley 21 The operation of the mechanism illustrated at Figs. 8 to 15 isas follows When the flywheel z rotates and carries with it the wheel 47, the latter through the wheels 46, 44, 43 and the member 50, shaft 51 and wheel 52 rotates the sleeve 54 at the same rate as the flywheel a, so that the wheel 56 strap which has been relatively to th? flywheel, and of thewheel .Thesleeve 54 is'loose upon the ed) and the pulley 21.

around which the. strap 19 (see Fig, 4) is placed.

movement to be imparted to the wheels 39, 40, 41 and 43 about their own axes and such movement by means of the part 50, spindle 51 and wheels 52 and 53 supplements the motion received by. the sleeve 54 from the wheel 47 upon; the flywheel. Such supplementary motion results in therotation of the wheel 56 about its own .axisand (by means of the slot 57) 'in the actuation of the lever 61, link 12, quadrant 13and other parts to bring the strap 19 (Fig'. 4) into operation.

uring such movement, the bowl 69 has traveled through a portion of the fslot 58 which isconcentric with the flywheel, and the arm 64 has ridden on the cam 63. The

planing machinetable now has its direction of motion reversed, for; while the one. strap 19 has been brought into'action, the other driving the table has beenput outof action.v

After reversal iseifected, the tappet 03 engages thearm It and imparts a supplemen tary movement to the s'haftr. Such movement causes a further motion of the racks 38 an d a furtherprotation of the sleeve 55 56. Such further rotation moves thecam 63 clear ofthe arm 64 and the pawl 66 is free,

under the actionof centrifugal force assisted if desired by aspring, to engage the edge of thewheel 67 so setting up a positive drive between the flywheel 2 (which carries'f the spindle 65 uponwhich the pawl 66 is mount- During such furthermovement also, the slot 58 acts on the lever 62 so as to cause .its free end to act as a strut or prop againstthe end of the arm 68 attached to the arm 64 and thus prevent the pawl 66 from disengaging the serrated edgeofthe. wheel 67 until released by the reversal of movement of the slotted wheel 56.

It will be understood that when the movement of the racked rods 38 is completed in either direction, the wheel 55 will again rotate at the same rate as the flywheel z and the wheel 56 will then remain stationary on its own axis.

When the mechanism shown in Figs. 13 to 15 is put in its out-ofservice position, the movement of the racked rods 38 in a reverse or opposite direction to that before indicated, causes the sleeve 54 to rotate relatively to the flywheel and the wheel 56 to rotate about its own axis. The first action of such parts is to withdraw the catch piece end of the arm 62 from the arm 68, the cam 63 then withdrawing the pawl 66 from the wheel 67 The further rotation of said parts results in the operation of the parts 61, 12, 13 and 14 for releasingthe driving strap 19 (see Fig. 4).

We prefer to employ the positive driving means for-the cutting traverse only of the machine and to utilize the friction driving straps only for the return or idle stroke.

It will be s'eenthat the essential of "our effected by positive. or non-frictional means.

We thiis'insu'r'e perfect steadiness and absenceof slip during the deepest or heaviest cuts and obtain smoothness withefliciency at reversal. I Having now described our invention what we claim as new anddesireto secure by Let- 'ters Patent isze 1'. Driving and reversingigearing for planing and like machine's comprising, in combination, a reversible part, frictional means for bringingjs'aid part to rest at the end of each f traverse and for reversing its direction of motion, and pos1t1ve means automatlcally brought into operatlon after reversal is completed for driving said part at least in one 1 direction, as set forth.

2; Driving and reversing gearing for plan- I ing and like machines, comprising, in combination, a reversible part, two sets of operat- 1 ing means upon said reversible part, frictionalmeans controlled by one set of said operating means for bringing said, part to rest the end oi each traverse and for reversi'ng its direct on of motion, and positive means'controlled from theiother set of said operating means for driving said reversible part at least in one direction of its traverse, as set forth.

3. Driving and reversing gearing for planing andlike machines, comprising, the combination with a reversible part, frictional driving means, positive driving means, and means for 'controlling said frictional and into action, as set forth.

controlling means, as

upon the reversible part for a 4:. In driving and'reve'rsing gearing for planing and like machines, the combination comprising two wheels continuously "driven 1n opposite d rections, a revers1ble'.part, two pulleys 1n operatlve connectlon with sa d reversible partfand each operating in conjunction with oneof said flywheels, and means for bringing said wheels and pulleys alteri I nately into frictional driving connection with one another, and one 'atleast'of said pulleys into positive driving connection with its flywheehasset'forth.3 a 1 5. In driving and reversing gearinggfor planing and like machines in combination, two wheels continuously driven in opposite directions, a reversible 'part,.pulleys concen trio with said Wheels andin operative connection with s'aid'rever'sible part, bands carried. bysaid wheels and encircling said pulleys, means for actuating said bands, means for establishing a positive'idriving connect on between one at least of sald wheels and pulleys, and operating means upon there-1 versible part forbringing first one 'of said bands and then the positive driving means In testimony whereof names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. I

Elena) WILKINSON BATEMAN, LOFTUS HANSON BATEMAN.

lVitnesses: a

MALCOLM SMETHURST,

1 v a LRNoLn SIMPSON MosE Er.

copies oi. this patentinay be obtained fer five cents each, addressing the Commissioner of-Iiztents, I v Washington, D. G.

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